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CHST184A consisted of weekly reading, questions, blog discussions, and essays. A lot of homework but no studying needed!
Completely terrible. The workload she assigns is inhumane. She expects you to read 100 pages in a single day, with questions on the reading due the very next day. Grade heavily depends on your TA. Lazily rehashes old material. Boring, outdated content.
Absolutely awful. Inhumane the amount of work she gives. She expects you to read like 50-100 pages in ONE DAY and the very next day those reading questions are due. Wouldn't budge on the grading policy until she was hounded by hundreds of students. Depends on your TA but they make or break your grade.
Absolutely hated the lecture style. Online course, two people presented each day. Heard from the professor during class sporadically before and after presentations. Not what I wanted from the course, I wish there were real lectures.
Professor Hernandez is intelligent and knowledgeable. Personality may not be for everyone, as she may come off as tough or rude. Expects participation and there's a group presentation at the end. The readings weren't too bad, but they are important for the 3 response papers. Class content is interesting and easy A if you do the work and show up.
This class will test your self-discipline. The professor will not give you homework regularly. Regularly watching weekly readings and videos can help you get through midterms and finals. There's not too much pressure.
In this class Professor Hernandez gave lectures in class about the books and the Chicana writers. Some guest lecturers were included too. However, I did most of my work with my TAs. The TAs helped the most with the papers and preparing for the midterm & final which were take-home. Class was not bad, but not as interactive with professor.
She is very unstructured and has a bad attitude. Talks to students like she wants them to feel stupid if she doesn't like their answer. Every week in section a group of people present the weekly book so the TA doesn't have to do anything. If I didn't have to take it for a requirement I wouldn't have. Overall made me lose respect for the CHST dpmt
Class itself wasn't too bad, grade consists of 4 papers and a group project presented in section. Lecture can get boring and isn't really necessary since the essays are based off reading. Hernandez can be condescending and will cut off students at times, especially if what they are sharing isn't something she agrees with.
NEVER TAKE HER!!!!! She is unstructured and lazy! Whole class consisted of student presentations everyday and her giving a remark here and there... Quizzes were based on these presentations but were TOUGH. She didn't hand back quizzes because she didn't want to make new quizzes if she taught the class again. ALSO, the reader was $88!!!!!!
I thought this class would be a lot different. The prof was nice and really into the subject, but did not prepare for exams at all. Heavily reading based class. Reading was dry and hard to get through. Not upset that I took the class, however.
Expected both a fun class and an easy class but this class was neither. She is not funny and makes up terrible tests because she listens to whatever the TA's want. She is unorganized. Did not like her very much.